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Item Ships From: New York City
"Loblolly Cove" Impressionist Sea Scape with Waves Crashing Oil Painting Framed
By John Terelak
Located in New York, NY
A truly masterful depiction of waves crashing by the rocks at Loblolly Cover in Rockport Massachusetts. The scene of Seagulls flying through the water as the waves crash create a stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rene Magritte 'Empire of Light, from the Venice Guggenheim
By René Magritte
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction of the Magritte painting is the only authorized and approved copy in its current format. It has been sanctioned by the appropriate authorities managing Magritte’s e...
Category
2010s Surrealist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
Roy Lichtenstein 'Oh, Jeff..' 1994 Vintage Pop Art
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Offset lithograph from a portfolio of six prints published by the Guggenheim Museum, now out of print. This striking work captures one of Lichtenstein's most iconic comic book inspir...
Category
1990s Pop Art Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
Sagittarius
By Lisa Taliano
Located in Dallas, TX
oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bronx Botanical
By Lisa Taliano
Located in Dallas, TX
oil on linen
Category
2010s Abstract Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil, Linen
Diego Rivera 'Women with Flowers and Vegetables'- Offset Lithograph
By Diego Rivera
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In "Women with Flowers and Vegetables," Rivera celebrates the resilience and strength of Mexican women, who have historically played a crucial role in sustaining their families and c...
Category
Late 20th Century Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
Light Up!
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Category
2010s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Photographic Paper
Light Up I!
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
PACKAGING: 30x40" and 40x60" prints are shipped in a special fortified tube to guard against bending or damage. Framed 30x40" prints are shipped via FedEx in a bespoke cardboard box ...
Category
2010s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Photographic Paper
Limited Edition Historic 1st Companion Ever (Hand Signed and Dated '00 by KAWS)
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
KAWS VERY FIRST COMPANION - HISTORIC
Uniquely Hand signed by the artist.
(the regular edition was unsigned)
KAWS
Limited Edition 1st Companion (Hand Signed by KAWS), 1999
Painted Ca...
Category
1990s Street Art Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media
Original HAND SIGNED AND NUMBERED 7/30 Pumpkin (Red) Sculpture on base with box
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Yayoi Kusama
Original Limited Edition hand signed and numbered Pumpkin (Red), 1998
Painted cast resin on ceramic tile in the original wood box, display plate and paper box
Signed and...
Category
1990s Pop Art Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Ceramic, Resin, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
Guoxian Yu Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Cloud and Wind"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Cloud and Wind
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 13.75 x 29.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Beach Party Umbrellas on the Beach Seaside Large Oil Landscape 1970's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5142 Italian Beach scene with umbrellas and peaple at the sea side
Oversized unframed
Category
1970s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil
19th century English Race Horse in Newmarket with Owner and Groom in a landscape
By Henry Bernard Chalon
Located in Woodbury, CT
Henry Bernard Chalon (1770–1849)
Newmarket, 1807
Oil on canvas, signed and dated centre middle
39 x 49 inches
Provenance: Richard Green, London
This impressive and finely detailed s...
Category
Early 1800s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Port de Plaisance" Pointillistic Seascape with Sailboats Oil Painting on Canvas
By Lucia Fortuny
Located in New York, NY
A large Mid-20th Century oil painting landscape depicting sail boats by the Port de Plaisance in France with homes and a tree lined path to the left. This piece has a strong presence...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pointillist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cats at play, portrait of a cat and a Kitten playing with a glove in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Gabriella Rainer-Istvanffy (Austrian, 1886–1963)
Cats at Play
Oil on canvas, circa 1950
26 x 30 inches (framed)
This charming composition by Gabriella Rainer-Istvanffy depicts a ten...
Category
1950s Impressionist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Scandinavian Female Figurative Oil Painting of A Bather
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4032 Scandinavian painting of a female bather on cut out wood applied to a painted backround
Set in a wood frame image size 8.5x10.5"
Category
1920s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil
Please Enjoy
By Natasha Martin
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for more information.
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Natasha Martin is an LA-based photographer who loves color and infusing dre...
Category
2010s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled #10, Minimalist lithograph on vellum transparency paper unsigned Framed
By Agnes Martin
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Martin
Untitled #10, 1990
Lithograph on vellum transparency paper
Unsigned
Limited Edition of 2500
Publisher: Nemela & Lenzen GmbH, Monchengladback & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterda...
Category
1990s Minimalist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Vellum, Lithograph
"At the Race" Post-Impressionist Equestrian Horse Race Scene Oil Painting Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A dynamic oil painting depicting a high energy horse race with abstract details and bursts of energy showcased with use of fast brush work and thick impasto oil paint. Jockeys, weari...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pink Swim
By Madeleine Gross
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Madeleine Gross is a Toronto-based artist who customizes her photographs with paint in a way designed to abstract landscapes but without completely abstracting rea...
Category
2010s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Photographic Paper
Henri Matisse 'A Thousand and One Nights' 1950 Mid Century
By Henri Matisse
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This framed piece features an estate-authorized 1999 reproduction of Henri Matisse’s One Thousand and One Nights (Les Mille et Une Nuits), originally created in 1950 during the artis...
Category
1990s Modern Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
"Carmel Beach" Colorful 20th Century Impressionist Beach Scene Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A stunning oil painting depicting Carmel Beach in California depicting sand dune flora toward the walking path through the bushes and plants. The puffed clouds moving in the sky agai...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sunday on the Narragansett
By Julio Larraz
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Julio Larraz is an expert draftsman, adroitly sketching his subjects and enlivening them with vibrant color. Larraz is recognized for his precise and detailed techn...
Category
Early 2000s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Photographic Paper
Guoqiang Nin Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Hidden Scenes"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Hidden Scenes
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 35 x 27.25 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in fair condition.
Year: 2000 Circa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gretchen #2
By Robert Longo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Striking and instantly recognizable, Gretchen is an original poster designed and created by Robert Longo as part of his iconic Men in the Cities series. Published in 1991 in collabor...
Category
1980s Pop Art Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
Jan Voss 'Roland Garros French Open' 1992- Vintage
By Jan Voss
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Official poster designed and created for the tennis tournament held at Roland Garros French Open every year. The poster is a limited edition of 2000. First edition, unsigned and not ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
The original limited edition 1965 Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA poster
By Alexander Calder
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Calder
The original Los Angeles County Museum of Art poster, 1965
Limited Edition vintage Offset Lithograph
32 × 24 3/4 inches 81.3 × 62.9 cm
Edition of 300
This is the OR...
Category
1960s Modern Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
"Parisian Street Scene" French Impressionist Oil Painting of Paris with Figures
By Georges Guerin
Located in New York, NY
In this piece, the artist depicts his subject in a whimsical and impressionistic way, capturing the Cafés of the busy streets from the 20th Century with much life. In the distance we...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lady with Pearl Necklace
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5111 Lady with pearl necklace by Lynn Lemay
Custom wood frame
Image size 23.5x19.5"
Category
1990s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil
UK exhibition poster of Grimms' Fairy Tales (Hand signed by David Hockney)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney
Grimms' Fairy Tales (Hand Signed), 1996
Offset Lithograph Poster
Boldly signed in ink marker on the top front
16 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches
Unframed
This signed offset lithogr...
Category
1990s Pop Art Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
"Australia" Black Outline Bunny on Soft Pink Background Oil Painting Gold Framed
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on a soft Pink background with thick use of paint. It ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Paul Klee 'Garden View' 1995- Vintage
By Paul Klee
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Garden View by Paul Klee, originally created in 1926, showcases the artist's playful yet insightful approach to depicting nature. This open edition offset lithograph poster, publishe...
Category
1990s Modern Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
"Boats on the Beach" Impressionist Oil Painting with Figures & Boats on Water
By Niek van der Plas
Located in New York, NY
This captivating scene in the beach in the Netherlands is a remarkable display of Van der Plas's true passion for outdoor genre paintings. A wonderfully rich boats scene executed in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Roy Lichtenstein 'Interior with Skyline, Collage for Painting' First Edition
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This open edition reproduction of Interior with Skyline was published by LEM Italy with the approval of the Lichtenstein Foundation for an exhibition of his work in Rome in 2000. Buy...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
Henri Matisse 'Red Interior: Still Life on a Blue Table' 1994- Vintage
By Henri Matisse
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Discover the charm of Henri Matisse through this vibrant image from a 1994 portfolio published by Taschen and printed in Germany. This reproduction captures the essence of Matisse’s ...
Category
1990s Impressionist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
Untitled (homage to Ellsworth Kelly) 1950s watercolor signed by Robert Indiana
By Robert Indiana
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana
Untitled homage to Ellsworth Kelly (Acquired from the studio of Robert Indiana), 1959
Watercolor and pencil on Plover Bond paper
This is an original, hand signed and d...
Category
1950s Pop Art Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Giltwood Framed Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, re...
Category
1950s Abstract Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil, Board
Abstract painting, Ex-Museum of Modern Art Collection (MoMA label) Signed Framed
By Sam Gilliam
Located in New York, NY
Sam Gilliam
Untitled Abstract Expressionist mixed media painting, Ex-Museum of Modern Art Collection, 1968
Watercolor and Aluminum Paint on Fiberglass Paper. (Framed with Museum of M...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Fiberglass, Paint, Watercolor
Adolf Dehn, Lake Tarryall, 1941 mid-century lithograph of Colorado mountain lake
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Lake Tarryall, a 1941 lithograph by Adolf Dehn (1895-1968) was made while he was teaching in Colorado. A native of Waterville, Minnesota, Dehn attended the Minneapolis School of Art ...
Category
1940s American Modern Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Lithograph
Antique Impressionist Coastal Landscape Wild Flower Nicely Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American or possibly European impressionist coastal oil painting by Harry Sutton Palmer (1854 - 1933). Palmer painted in the UK and California. Oil on canvas. Framed. Si...
Category
1960s Impressionist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil, Board
"Shade of Red" Black Outline Bunny on Cerise Red Oil Painting on Wood Framed
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on a cerise red background with thick use of paint. In...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Winged Kaleidoscope" Butterflies on Silver & Gold Background Oil Painting
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Butterflies. This piece depicts delicate butterflies in ascension placed in a wonderful colorful, gold and silver ton...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media
Handwritten letter on American Indian Theme II card signed to CBS News cameraman
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in New York, NY
Roy Lichtenstein
Handwritten note on card
ink on paper
hand signed by Roy Lichtenstein
The card reads
"Thank you so much for the wonderful prints
Very kind of you to send them to me
Best regards,
Roy Lichtenstein
This card depicts Roy Lichtenstein's American Indian Theme II (from American Indian Theme Series), 1980, Woodcut in colors on Suzuki handmade paper
Provenance: This card was acquired from Dan Pope, a longtime CBS photographer and cameraman, who had amassed a superb collection of autographs by visual artists over many decades.
This work has been elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality wood frame under UV plexiglass.
Measurements:
Framed
14.75 inches vertical by 11.5 horizontal by 1.5 inches depth
Card (image)
Roy Lichtenstein Biography
Roy Lichtenstein was one of the most influential and innovative artists of the second half of the twentieth century. He is preeminently identified with Pop Art, a movement he helped originate, and his first fully achieved paintings were based on imagery from comic strips and advertisements and rendered in a style mimicking the crude printing processes of newspaper reproduction. These paintings reinvigorated the American art scene and altered the history of modern art. Lichtenstein’s success was matched by his focus and energy, and after his initial triumph in the early 1960s, he went on to create an oeuvre of more than 5,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, murals and other objects celebrated for their wit and invention.
Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in New York City, the first of two children born to Milton and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein. Milton Lichtenstein (1893–1946) was a successful real estate broker, and Beatrice Lichtenstein (1896–1991), a homemaker, had trained as a pianist, and she exposed Roy and his sister Rénee to museums, concerts and other aspects of New York culture. Roy showed artistic and musical ability early on: he drew, painted and sculpted as a teenager, and spent many hours in the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Modern Art. He played piano and clarinet, and developed an enduring love of jazz, frequenting the nightspots in Midtown to hear it.
Lichtenstein attended the Franklin School for Boys, a private junior high and high school, and was graduated in 1940. That summer he studied painting and drawing from the model at the Art Students League of New York with Reginald Marsh. In September he entered Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus in the College of Education. His early artistic idols were Rembrandt, Daumier and Picasso, and he often said that Guernica (1937; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid), then on long-term loan to the Museum of Modern Art, was his favorite painting. Even as an undergraduate, Lichtenstein objected to the notion that one set of lines (one person’s drawings) “was considered brilliant, and somebody’s else’s, that may have looked better to you, was considered nothing by almost everyone.”i Lichtenstein’s questioning of accepted canons of taste was encouraged by Hoyt L. Sherman, a teacher whom he maintained was the person who showed him how to see and whose perception-based approach to art shaped his own.
In February 1943, Lichtenstein was drafted, and he was sent to Europe in 1945. As part of the infantry, he saw action in France, Belgium and Germany. He made sketches throughout his time in Europe and, after peace was declared there, he intended to study at the Sorbonne. Lichtenstein arrived in Paris in October 1945 and enrolled in classes in French language and civilization, but soon learned that his father was gravely ill. He returned to New York in January 1946, a few weeks before Milton Lichtenstein died. In the spring of that year, Lichtenstein went back to OSU to complete his BFA and in the fall he was invited to join the faculty as an instructor. In June 1949, he married Isabel Wilson Sarisky (1921–80), who worked in a cooperative art gallery in Cleveland where Lichtenstein had exhibited his work. While he was teaching, Lichtenstein worked on his master’s degree, which he received in 1949. During his second stint at OSU, Lichtenstein became closer to Sherman, and began teaching his method on how to organize and unify a composition. Lichtenstein remained appreciative of Sherman’s impact on him. He gave his first son the middle name of “Hoyt,” and in 1994 he donated funds to endow the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center at OSU.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Lichtenstein began working in series and his iconography was drawn from printed images. His first sustained theme, intimate paintings and prints in the vein of Paul Klee that poked lyrical fun at medieval knights, castles and maidens, may well have been inspired by a book about the Bayeux Tapestry. Lichtenstein then took an ironic look at nineteenth-century American genre paintings he saw in history books, creating Cubist interpretations of cowboys and Indians spiked with a faux-primitive whimsy.
As with his most celebrated Pop paintings of the 1960s, Lichtenstein gravitated toward what he would characterize as the “dumbest” or “worst” visual item he could find and then went on to alter or improve it. In the 1960s, commercial art was considered beneath contempt by the art world; in the early 1950s, with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, nineteenth-century American narrative and genre paintings were at the nadir of their reputation among critics and collectors. Paraphrasing, particularly the paraphrasing of despised images, became a paramount feature of Lichtenstein’s art. Well before finding his signature mode of expression in 1961, Lichtenstein called attention to the artifice of conventions and taste that permeated art and society. What others dismissed as trivial fascinated him as classic and idealized—in his words, “a purely American mythological subject matter.”ii
Lichtenstein’s teaching contract at OSU was not renewed for the 1951–52 academic year, and in the autumn of 1951 he and Isabel moved to Cleveland. Isabel Lichtenstein became an interior decorator specializing in modern design, with a clientele drawn from wealthy Cleveland families. Whereas her career blossomed, Lichtenstein did not continue to teach at the university level. He had a series of part-time jobs, including industrial draftsman, furniture designer, window dresser and rendering mechanical dials for an electrical instrument company. In response to these experiences, he introduced quirkily rendered motors, valves and other mechanical elements into his paintings and prints. In 1954, the Lichtensteins’ first son, David, was born; two years later, their second child, Mitchell, followed. Despite the relative lack of interest in his work in Cleveland, Lichtenstein did place his work with New York dealers, which always mattered immensely to him. He had his first solo show at the Carlebach Gallery in New York in 1951, followed by representation with the John Heller Gallery from 1952 to 1957.
To reclaim his academic career and get closer to New York, Lichtenstein accepted a position as an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Oswego, in the northern reaches of the state. He was hired to teach industrial design, beginning in September 1957. Oswego turned out to be more geographically and aesthetically isolated than Cleveland ever was, but the move was propitious, for both his art and his career. Lichtenstein broke away from representation to a fully abstract style, applying broad swaths of pigment to the canvas by dragging the paint across its surface with a rag wrapped around his arm. At the same time, Lichtenstein was embedding comic-book characters figures such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in brushy, expressionistic backgrounds. None of the proto-cartoon paintings from this period survive, but several pencil and pastel studies from that time, which he kept, document his intentions. Finally, when he was in Oswego, Lichtenstein met Reginald Neal, the new head of the art department at Douglass College, the women’s college of Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The school was strengthening and expanding its studio art program, and when Neal needed to add a faculty member to his department, Lichtenstein was invited to apply for the job. Lichtenstein was offered the position of assistant professor, and he began teaching at Douglass in September 1960.
At Douglass, Lichtenstein was thrown into a maelstrom of artistic ferment. With New York museums and galleries an hour away, and colleagues Geoffrey Hendricks and Robert Watts at Douglass and Allan Kaprow and George Segal at Rutgers, the environment could not help but galvanize him. In June 1961, Lichtenstein returned to the idea he had fooled around with in Oswego, which was to combine cartoon characters from comic books with abstract backgrounds. But, as Lichtenstein said, “[I]t occurred to me to do it by mimicking the cartoon style without the paint texture, calligraphic line, modulation—all the things involved in expressionism.”iii Most famously, Lichtenstein appropriated the Benday dots, the minute mechanical patterning used in commercial engraving, to convey texture and gradations of color—a stylistic language synonymous with his subject matter. The dots became a trademark device forever identified with Lichtenstein and Pop Art. Lichtenstein may not have calibrated the depth of his breakthrough immediately but he did realize that the flat affect and deadpan presentation of the comic-strip panel blown up and reorganized in the Sherman-inflected way “was just so much more compelling”iv than the gestural abstraction he had been practicing.
Among the first extant paintings in this new mode—based on comic strips and illustrations from advertisements—were Popeye and Look Mickey, which were swiftly followed by The Engagement Ring, Girl with Ball and Step-on Can with Leg. Kaprow recognized the energy and radicalism of these canvases and arranged for Lichtenstein to show them to Ivan Karp, director of the Leo Castelli Gallery. Castelli was New York’s leading dealer in contemporary art, and he had staged landmark exhibitions of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg in 1958 and Frank Stella in 1960. Karp was immediately attracted to Lichtenstein’s paintings, but Castelli was slower to make a decision, partly on account of the paintings’ plebeian roots in commercial art, but also because, unknown to Lichtenstein, two other artists had recently come to his attention—Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist—and Castelli was only ready for one of them. After some deliberation, Castelli chose to represent Lichtenstein, and the first exhibition of the comic-book paintings was held at the gallery from February 10 to March 3, 1962. The show sold out and made Lichtenstein notorious. By the time of Lichtenstein’s second solo exhibition at Castelli in September 1963, his work had been showcased in museums and galleries around the country. He was usually grouped with Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Rosenquist, Segal, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Indiana and Tom Wesselmann. Taken together, their work was viewed as a slap in the face to Abstract Expressionism and, indeed, the Pop artists shifted attention away from many members of the New York School.
With the advent of critical and commercial success, Lichtenstein made significant changes in his life and continued to investigate new possibilities in his art. After separating from his wife, he moved from New Jersey to Manhattan in 1963; in 1964, he resigned from his teaching position at Douglass to concentrate exclusively on his work. The artist also ventured beyond comic book subjects, essaying paintings based on oils by Cézanne, Mondrian and Picasso, as well as still lifes and landscapes.
Lichtenstein became a prolific printmaker and expanded into sculpture, which he had not attempted since the mid-1950s, and in both two- and three-dimensional pieces, he employed a host of industrial or “non-art” materials, and designed mass-produced editioned objects that were less expensive than traditional paintings and sculpture. Participating in one such project—the American Supermarket show in 1964 at the Paul Bianchini Gallery, for which he designed a shopping bag—Lichtenstein met Dorothy Herzka (b. 1939), a gallery employee, whom he married in 1968. The late 1960s also saw Lichtenstein’s first museum surveys: in 1967 the Pasadena Art Museum initiated a traveling retrospective, in 1968 the Stedelijk Musem in Amsterdam presented his first European retrospective, and in 1969 he had his first New York retrospective, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Wanting to grow, Lichtenstein turned away from the comic book subjects that had brought him prominence. In the late 1960s his work became less narrative and more abstract, as he continued to meditate on the nature of the art enterprise itself. He began to explore and deconstruct the notion of brushstrokes—the building blocks of Western painting. Brushstrokes are conventionally conceived as vehicles of expression, but Lichtenstein made them into a subject. Modern artists have typically maintained that the subject of a painting is painting itself. Lichtenstein took this idea one imaginative step further: a compositional element could serve as the subject matter of a work and make that bromide ring true.
The search for new forms and sources was even more emphatic after 1970, when Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein bought property in Southampton, New York, and made it their primary residence. During the fertile decade of the 1970s, Lichtenstein probed an aspect of perception that had steadily preoccupied him: how easily the unreal is validated as the real because viewers have accepted so many visual conceptions that they don’t analyze what they see. In the Mirror series, he dealt with light and shadow upon glass, and in the Entablature series, he considered the same phenomena by abstracting such Beaux-Art architectural elements as cornices, dentils, capitals and columns. Similarly, Lichtenstein created pioneering painted bronze sculpture that subverted the medium’s conventional three-dimensionality and permanence. The bronze forms were as flat and thin as possible, more related to line than volume, and they portrayed the most fugitive sensations—curls of steam, rays of light and reflections on glass. The steam, the reflections and the shadow were signs for themselves that would immediately be recognized as such by any viewer.
Another entire panoply of works produced during the 1970s were complex encounters with Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Surrealism and Expressionism. Lichtenstein expanded his palette beyond red, blue, yellow, black, white and green, and invented and combined forms. He was not merely isolating found images, but juxtaposing, overlapping, fragmenting and recomposing them. In the words of art historian Jack Cowart, Lichtenstein’s virtuosic compositions were “a rich dialogue of forms—all intuitively modified and released from their nominal sources.”v In the early 1980s, which coincided with re-establishing a studio in New York City, Lichtenstein was also at the apex of a busy mural career. In the 1960s and 1970s, he had completed four murals; between 1983 and 1990, he created five. He also completed major commissions for public sculptures in Miami Beach, Columbus, Minneapolis, Paris, Barcelona and Singapore.
Lichtenstein created three major series in the 1990s, each emblematic of his ongoing interest in solving pictorial problems. The Interiors, mural-sized canvases inspired by a miniscule advertisement in an Italian telephone...
Category
1980s Pop Art Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Ink, Postcard, Lithograph, Offset
Marc Chagall 'La Baie' 1963- Vintage
By Marc Chagall
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original lithograph by Marc Chagall is an "above the edition" piece from Chagall Lithographe II (1957–1962), published by André Sauret in Paris in 1963. The image itself dates t...
Category
1960s Modern Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
Bibliotheques des Beaux Arts de Paris
By Ludwig Favre
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: French photographer Ludwig Favre continues his series on empty architectural spaces at La Sorbonne. Our curators recommend the work large format and framed in simpl...
Category
2010s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Photographic Paper
Kate Moss during a night out, 2007
Located in New York, NY
Kate Moss is photographed during a night out at the Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden in London on the 16th of January in 2007. The British supermodel and businesswoman rose to fame ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage American School Western Seascape Fauvist Modern Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school fauvist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, read...
Category
1940s Fauvist Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage French Impressionist Villa Gardens Landscape Oil Painting 1960's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3365 Oil on artist board of on enchanted lily pond
Set in an ornate hand painted wood frame
Image size 12.5x15.5"
Category
1960s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil
$300 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall 'La Baie des Anges' 1963- Vintage
By Marc Chagall
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an above the edition impression of an original lithograph by Marc Chagall, created in 1962 and printed in 1963 by Mourlot for Chagall Lithographe II, published by André Saure...
Category
1960s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
Beach -that Way
By Madeleine Gross
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Madeleine Gross is a Toronto-based artist who customizes her photographs with paint in a way designed to abstract landscapes but without completely abstracting rea...
Category
2010s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Photographic Paper
4 19th century Fox Hunting in a landscape with horses, huntsman and hounds
By Henry Alken
Located in Woodbury, CT
Rare Set of Four Fox Hunting Scenes by Henry Alken (1785–1851)
English, circa 1830–1840
Oil on Canvas, One Signed Lower Right
This superb and rare set of four oil paintings by reno...
Category
1830s Victorian Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alexander Calder 'Spirales' 1974- Vintage
By Alexander Calder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This first-release lithograph, Spirales, was published by XXe Siècle in an edition above the official release that accompanied a special volume dedicated to Calder’s work. While plat...
Category
1970s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Lithograph
Rare 1960s Musee D'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris Limited Edition offset print
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg
Rare 1960s Musee D'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris poster, 1968
Offset Lithograph
Edition of 500
27 1/2 × 21 inches
Unframed, not signed
Accompanied by Certifica...
Category
1960s Pop Art Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Art About Art, historic Whitney Museum of American Pop Art lithographic poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in New York, NY
Roy Lichtenstein
Art About Art Whitney Museum of American Art 1978 poster, 1978
Offset lithograph poster
Frame included: held in the original vintage frame
Provenance:
from the colle...
Category
1970s Pop Art Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Man Ray 'Lips (No Text)' 1966
By Man Ray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
First edition exhibition poster designed and created by Man Ray for the opening of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1966. It is unsigned and not numbered. An undetermined amou...
Category
1960s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
City Graffiti Art Colorful Oil Painting #1 by S. Mooney
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4090 An abstract graffiti art, oil on artist board displayed in a custom -made wood frame Image size 12H x 12 W
Category
1980s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Oil
Quarry, Pop Art Offset Lithograph by Robert Rauschenberg
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Robert Rauschenberg, American (1925 - 2008) - Quarry, Year: 1968, Medium: Offset Lithograph, Image Size: 33 x 25 inches, Size: 34.5 x 26 in. (87.63 x 66.04 cm)
Category
1960s Pop Art Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
Robert Mapplethorpe 'Antinous' 1994 Vintage
By Robert Mapplethorpe
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This evocative image by Robert Mapplethorpe, titled Antinous, reflects the photographer’s reverence for classical beauty and sculptural form. The statue of Antinous—Hadrian’s famed c...
Category
1990s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
Robert Rauschenberg 'Favor Rites (No Text)' 1994- Offset Lithograph
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a reproduction of Favor Rites by Robert Rauschenberg, from a rare exhibition poster in the Collection of European Masters series, published by Achenbach Editions for the Kuns...
Category
1990s Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Offset
8 Hearts / Look, Lt. Ed Off-set Lithograph with metallic paper collage overlay
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine
8 Hearts / Look, Off-set Lithograph with metallic paper collage overlay
Galerie Thomas exhibition print, 1970
Color lithograph and offset lithograph on wove paper
Plate sign...
Category
1970s Pop Art Fine Art in New York City
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
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